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joslinm
joslinm

Reputation: 8105

Gem rb-inotify causing libffi errors

I'm trying to use guard on my system. With the Gemfile as is, I'm only using 

gem 'libnotify', '0.5.9'`
gem 'guard-rspec', '0.5.5'

When I run guard bundle exec guard, I get this error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ffi-1.0.11/lib/ffi.rb:11:in
`require': ffi_prep_cif failed.  status=0x2 (fatal)

I can however still run my tests via bundle exec rspec spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb. Now if I use the gem gem 'rb-inotify', '0.8.8' as I'm supposed to according to this Ruby on Rails tutorial, and try to run my tests, they fail with the same error as above (ffi_prep_cif failed).

When I do an ls on /usr/local/lib, I see a few libffi files. Could this be a problem? Can anyone explain what's going on here & why rb-inotify is acting up?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 337

Answers (1)

Anthony Green
Anthony Green

Reputation: 628

What version of libffi are you using? The libffi github repo had a ffi_prep_cif bug these past few days that would have resulted in the failure you're seeing. It was fixed last night.

Upvotes: 1

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